Late one night during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial last year, prosecutor Marcia Clark let down her hair and indulged a fantasy: getting the chance to cross-examine Simpson herself. The accused murderer's defense attorneys, after all, kept dangling the tantalizing prospect before her. "It'll never happen," Clark said. "But I would love it." Striking a hungry, heavy-lidded pose at her desk, she cooed, "Good morning, Mr. Simpson. I have a few thousand questions to ask you."
Simpson may or may not have actually wanted to answer those few thousand questions--he has insisted he did--but in the end, his lawyers decided it...